k

K is the 11th letter of the English alphabet or is short for kilo or karat.

(noun)

  1. An example of k is the first letter in the word "kite."
  2. An example of K is the abbreviated form of the word kilogram.

The definition of k is related to the 11th letter in the English alphabet or the sound of that letter.

(adjective)

An example of K used as an adjective is in the phrase "K pancakes," which means pancakes shaped like that letter.

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See k in Webster's New World College Dictionary

or K

noun pl. K's, k's

  1. the eleventh letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek kappa, a borrowing from the Phoenician
  2. any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (k) of kept
  3. a type or impression for k or K
  4. the eleventh in a sequence or group
  5. an object shaped like

adjective

  1. of k or K
  2. eleventh in a sequence or group
  3. shaped like

  1. karat (carat)
  2. kilo-
  3. kilogram
  4. kilometer
  5. kopeck(s)

Boltzmann constant

noun

  1. Comput. kilobyte
  2. Informal a thousand dollars: she earns 40K now

Origin: k(ilo-)

  1. karat (carat)
  2. kathode (cathode)
  3. Physics Kelvin
  4. Football kicker
    sometimes written k
  5. kilometer
  6. kindergarten
  7. Chess king
  8. Bible Kings
  9. knit
  10. kosher: prepared according to kashrut
  11. Origin: < (struc)k (out)

    Baseball strikeout
  12. Comput. the number 1,024, or 2
  13. Music a prefix to the numbers of the works of W. A. Mozart as indexed in the catalog of his works compiled by L. Köchel (1800-77), Austrian musicologist

  1. Elec. capacity
  2. Origin: ModL kalium < Ar (al-)qili: see alkali

    Chem. potassium

See k in American Heritage Dictionary 4

or K

noun pl. K's k's or K's also ks or Ks
  1. The 11th letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter k.
  3. The 11th in a series.
  4. Something shaped like the letter K.

abbreviation
karat

noun
Slang
One thousand dollars.

Origin:

Origin: k(ilo)-

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The symbol for the element potassium.

Origin:

Origin: From New Latin kalium, potassium; see hypokalemia

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abbreviation
  1. kaon
  2. kelvin
  3. kilobyte
  4. kindergarten
  5. Games king
  6. Bible Kings
  7. strikeout

abbreviation
knight (title)

A peak in the Karakoram Range of northern Kashmir in the region controlled by Pakistan. At 8,616.3 m (28,250 ft), it is the second-highest mountain in the world. It was designated K2 in 1856 because it was the second Karakoram peak to be measured for height and was later (1888) named for Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), a British soldier and surveyor.

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